Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-22

for compliment that he is at his ease nor
as totally happy as his manner seems: he
knows the eye of his employer is on him;
he knows, too, of the half concealed i'm
patience of q lady who comes to
buy, and in his heart of
hearts he wishes the chatty girl
safe out, much preferrng to choose the
time and place where social chat and
pretty nothIngs may be more properly in
dulged.
As the shopping goes on there is no
place where more of a Woman's nature
can be effectively studied than IN the mil
liners store; there she dallies and delays,
turns from mirror to mirror until the
tired woman in waiting from sheer
fatigue assents to any kind of Combina-
ton that the unframed fancy of the
buyer may suggest. Wiser is the little
woman who comes in early, says to the
milliner: "You see the style of my face
and person, please use your judgment in
selecting what will be becoming, and |
will call again when the bonnet is done
and see the effect" With some express
sion of choice in color and the price she
feels able TO pay, she leaves the milliner
TO the exercise of her talent, which has
been cultivated for the business. The
result will in the main be satisfactory,
and the milliner will at least feel more
the responsibility Of the choice.
To be woman is to love dress, and
whether she be student or artist, an as
semblage of well-dressed women opens
kaleidoscope view which charms by
the gay intermipglipg of color and the
varied forms of beauty which pass before
the vision. The blending in masses Of
art shades in color is 3 constant surprise
andno genuine lover of the beautiful de
sires fixed laws in the realm of fashion.
This season brides favor the Grecian
models, but the fashions in general are
of the Italian school, and that always
means color. Red of every shaGe, red
absolute and red modified, and the indi-
cations are that even at I0I' Fahrenheit,
red will abate none of It's fierceness. En-
tire gowns OF red tulle, of surah and of
cashmere are spoken of in fashion Jour
nails, and the color extends to fans, para
soils, hats and gloves, so in tor
rid temperature, torrid shades abound,
and that taste which seeks
cool neutral tipts is questioned by the
strict follower Of fashions edicts. Black,
however, will not yield the sway it has SO
long held, ana is sometimes used in COM
bination with scarlet. A modiste recently
exhibited an effective dress in blackssurah
cut princess and without train. Coming
from under the arms were two scarfs of
cardinal silk which were drawn about the
figure and knotted directly over the hesrt,
the ends falling free and terminating in
garnet spikes. Small saShes were scanned |
IN the shoulder and made little sailor !
knots that Crnamented the sleeves. Some |
tighten the effect of an entirely black |
dress by open fronts wi plastron. This |
fashion in all dresses has created demand |
for vests, fuckers, chemlsettes, guimpes /
and OId-fsshioned stomachers OF every !
sort. Among the elegsncies in this line
are exhibited guimpes of black chsntilly
aud thresd-pstterned lace with alternat-
ing strips of wrought tulle, costly
spd beautiful plastrons and gilets, reach
ing the entire front of the bodice, msde
Of soft Victoria silk handsomely enbroid-
cred in shaded silk, the tiny buds and
leaves outlined with small Roman and
pink beads. Then come dressy fancies in
ace and embroidery, and exceedingly
iainty Russian chemisettes in exquisite
French needlework wrought on sheer In
liz muslin. For morning wear are plain
Gckers of fine white linen or percale, in
ielicate patterns with neat collar to
match fastened with ieweled stud.
Elderly ladies cling to black, but even
he younger ones find the mixture of
black and white so invariably becoming